Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:

2 In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.

3 The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.

4 This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:

5 that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.

6 If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

7 in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”

8 Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.

9 The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.